Nov 20: Nuremberg war crime trials started on this day in 1945
Bengaluru, Nov 20: Today is Thursday, November 20, 2014. What happened on this day in history? Oneindia takes a look at the past:
1700: Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats a Russian force, much bigger than his, at Narva.
1750: Ruler of Mysore Tipu Sultan was born in Devanahalli near modern-day Bangalore.
1789: New Jersey becomes the first US state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1903: Tom Horn, the hired gunman who was convicted of killing 14-year-old Willie Nickell, is executed.
1910: Leo Tolstoy dies in Russia.
1914: Bulgaria declares its neutrality in the First World War.
1931: Japan and China reject the League of Council's terms for Manchuria in Geneva.
1945: The Nazi war crime trials of 24 leaders begins at Nuremberg.
1955: Polly Umrigar scores India's first double-hundred in test matches. He scored 223 against New Zealand in Hyderabad.
1947: Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
1962: President John F Kennedy lifts American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis, one of the biggest post-Second World War crisis.
1971: The US announces it will give Turkey $35 million to facilitate farmers who stopped growing opium poppies.
1975: Spain's General Francisco Franco dies.
1992: Fire in England's Windsor Castle causes damage worth over £50 million in damages.
2000: Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigns.
2008: Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years, thanks to failure in the USA's financial system.
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